From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Introducing a brilliant light source - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Introducing a brilliant light source
Just so as you know I went ahead and double-clicked the Clouds Filter a few more times until I achieve this effect right here, and then I went ahead and saved it off as Masked sunrays.psd. In this exercise we're going to finish off the composition by adding a burst of light coming out from underneath the clouds and we are going to embellish that light using a couple of smart filters as well. Again, if you're working along with me go ahead and scroll up to the top of the list here inside the Layers panel and you'll find this layer called sunlight. I want you to go ahead and turn it on and notice it's just this black area with this blob of white in the upper right- hand corner that I painted rather roughly. I must have been using the Brush tool. And not I'd like you go up to the layer menu and choose the Arrange command and then choose Send to Back, or we can press Ctrl+Shift+ We however want it to be in front of the rays layer. [, Command+Shift+[ on the Mac and that'll send that layer…
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Choosing the ideal base channel5m 7s
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Converting a channel into a mask6m 34s
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Painting with the Overlay mode7m 27s
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Painting with the Soft Light mode5m 55s
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Mask, composite, refine, and blend4m 40s
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Creating a more aggressive mask7m 2s
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Blending differently masked layers7m
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Creating a hair-only mask6m
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Using history to regain a lost mask3m 42s
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Separating flesh tones from hair8m 28s
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Adjusting a model's color temperature4m 30s
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Introducing the Calculations command7m 22s
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Extracting a mask from a Smart Object6m 34s
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Integrating a bird into a new sky5m 40s
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Creating synthetic rays of light6m 4s
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Masking and compositing light7m 39s
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Introducing a brilliant light source7m 5s
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Using the image to select itself1m 37s
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